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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.